Done with Breath of Fire 2 my god what a slog. That encounter rate is immense and so, SO much back tracking. Like I said earlier, so much was improved from BoF1 (story/graphics/menu/combat/interaction) but dungeons, backtracking, and encounter rate all got way worse. How does that happen?
Now I'm trying to decide what's next. BoF3 (never made it passed the child arc), replay Suikoden 1 and 2 (already played these), Illusion of Gaia (never played this, I tried Soul blazer, but it felt too archaic, I did play like 20 minutes of this last night and it felt a lot better than Soul Blazer) and of course all the talk about Xenogears has got me interested in doing that again too (but that damned text speed so SOOOOOO sloww....) Maybe I should do the FFIX steam version so I can up the battle speed.
I'm open to other suggestions/recommendations.